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Quotes About Sneakiness

Inside the room, the pall fear had fallen anew. Again, surreptitiously, they watched each other.
~ Agatha Christie
All the sneakiness her sister had exhibited as a child had been honed to adult perfection, so that Claire could be standing right in front of an oncoming train and still insist that everything was going to be fine.
~ Karin Slaughter
Smugglin' that by me? That's like tryin' to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.
~ Dr. Phil McGraw
Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.
~ Rick Riordan
It was so typical of the little sneak. And after all she'd done for him.
~ Jayne Castle
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
~ Plautus
Sneakiness was a form of privacy and privacy here was the first loss.
~ Joan London
but how are you going to get the rocks into her pack without her seeing?' 'I'm not going to put the rocks in her pack,' I say. 'You are.' 'Me?' says Danny. 'What
~ Andy Griffiths
If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
~ Mobutu Sese Seko
crushes the adventurous, the brave, the sensitive, and encourages the timid, the opportunist and time-serving, the sneak and the bully. It surrounds itself with
~ Shashi Tharoor
Over-the-top dance reality shows are hard for me to watch. The real drama in our world is much more emotional, personal, and extreme. There is manipulation and sneakiness.
~ Sarah Hay
He'd followed Dasha once before and remembered which door was hers. He knocked, peered inside, then jumped in and shut the door, quiet as brushing two feathers together. He smiled at his own stealth, then swaggered right into a chair, banging it against the wall. You oaf. He cut short his swagger and begin to move with exaggerated sneakiness. There was a certain pleasure in that, too.
~ Shannon Hale
You forgot to cough!" he said. "Sorry." She coughed. "Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head." "Now, Peder, there's plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face." He stroked his chin. "You're right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection." She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.
~ Shannon Hale
Razo] knocked, peered inside, then jumped and shut the door, quiet as brushing two feathers together. He smiled at his own stealth, then swaggered right into a chair, banging it against the wall. You oaf . He cut short his swagger and began to move with exaggerated sneakiness.
~ Shannon Hale
One night, in the warehouse of a grocery chain, I saw some egg-stealing rats at work. They worked in pairs. A small rat would straddle an egg and clutch it in his four paws. When he got a good grip on it, he'd roll over on his back. Then a bigger rat would grab him by the tail and drag him across the floor to a hole in the baseboard, a hole leading to a burrow.
~ Joseph Mitchell
ShadowClan cats are better than most of us at hiding," Firestar pointed out under his breath.
~ Erin Hunter
A thief never makes a noise by accident.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Did I hurt you in the parking lot? No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car. Great.
~ Ilona Andrews
You're the one who's not supposed to be here." She hoped he didn't hear the squeak in her normally reliable voice. "How am I supposed to snoop if you don't leave when you say you're going to?
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
And incidents of clandestine cake mix use were not isolated! Busybodies excused themselves from parties just long enough to rifle through the kitchen trash cans for empty cake mix boxes.
~ Susan Marks
Porque es un poco así, el tiempo transcurre a hurtadillas, disimulando, no le vemos andar.
~ Carmen Martín Gaite
You expecting sabotage?" "You don't expect sabotage. That's why it's sabotage.
~ J.D. Robb
Eve supposed everything about Nadine looked mag, from her sweep of streaky blonde hair to the toes of her jazzed shoes. She had a foxy, angular face, observant green eyes, and a slim body that curved appropriately in her on-camera suit of power red. She was smart, she was sneaky, she was cynical. And for reasons Eve imagined neither of them fully understood, they'd become friends.
~ J.D. Robb
There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.
~ Michael Lee West, Crazy Ladies